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Practitioners who argue AGAINST diagnosis:

                       uses assessment to understand the client’s pattern of thinking and to identify self-defeating beliefs.

In chapter 7, Kottler discusses the best ways to process failure effectively.  How do you tend to process failure, and what do you need to do differently according to the author? (10 points)

                     is an organized system by which practitioners within a profession assess one another’s services.

Clients can file a legal complaint against a therapist for sexual misconduct by all of the following methods EXCEPT:

A school counselor was working with Quan, whose presenting problem was anxiety pertaining to academic success in college. This was within the scope of the school counselor’s training. However, during the course of therapy, Quan became very depressed and engaged in self-­mutilation and other forms of self­-destructive behavior. Quan’s counselor recognized that these symptoms and behaviors reflected a problem area that was outside the scope of his practice. Ethical practice required that the school counselor:

Marty is counseling with an Asian client who recently returned from a trip to Japan to visit relatives. His client wants to give him an inexpensive souvenir. It is important for Marty to:

The intended victim’s knowledge of a threat does NOT relieve therapists of the duty to protect, as can be seen by the decision in:

In                       , the court expanded the practitioner’s duty to warn those in danger to include the circumstance in which a family member communicates to a mental health practitioner a belief that the client poses a risk of grave bodily injury to another

Miguel has been providing couples’ counseling to Saundra and Steven for a couple of years and was recently invited to attend their 20th wedding anniversary party. Attending this event is an example of: